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The 2004 Colorado Innovation Summit September 23-24, 2004 Emerging global markets empower a whole new breed of competition. America's innovation edge is threatened. You can see it in costs and complexity. You can feel it in your gut. Our competitive edge is at risk. Company by company, industry by industry. And there is only one solution. Innovation must be reinvigorated… at every level, every year… for the foreseeable future. People and processes, management and staff, strategy and tactics. Re-envisioned, re-invented, and constantly renewed to keep up with the pace of change. The Colorado Innovation Summit refreshes minds and re-energizes people with lessons from the real world. Both what works and what doesn’t, in stories told by professionals who face change every day.
Featured Speakers
Dr. Lawrence Farwell Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Brain Fingerprinting Laboratories, Inc.	Dr. Lawrence Farwell, Chairman & Chief Scientist, Brain Fingerprinting Laboratories Brain Fingerprinting? is a new scientific method for detecting whether specific information is stored in a person’s brain. Though an extensive R&D process developed the system, full innovation would require proofs. More than just proof of process, these needed to be proofs of confidence. Farwell holds degrees from Harvard University and the University of Illinois. Recently TIME Magazine named Farwell to the “TIME 100: The Next Wave,” the 100 innovators who may be “the Einsteins and Picassos of the next century.”
Richard Truly Director National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)	Richard Truly is Director of the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) which is operated by the Midwest Research Institute (MRI), and Battelle. He is also the Executive Vice President of MRI. Prior to joining NREL, Truly was Vice President of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) from 1992 - 1997. Truly served as NASA's eighth Administrator under President Bush from 1989-92, and his career in aviation and space programs of the U.S. Navy and NASA spanned 35 years.

2004 Advisors & Speakers

Mike Coffman Colorado State Treasurer	Bob Haimes, Senior Vice President of Strategy eCollege	Kim Hibler Vice President First Datar	Steve Jennings Vice President of Marketing DigitalGlobe	Bill French Co-founder MyST Technology Partners	Wendy P. Bohling Director of IP Converged Solutions Development Avaya	Lorraine Martin Vice President Joint Command, Control and Communications Systems Lockheed Martin
Drew Crouch Vice President Strategic Development Ball Aerospaces	Mike McCracken Managing Partner Tatum CFO Partners	David B. Harden Co-Founder, The Knowledge Continuity Cente	Christine Shapard Director Biosciences and Emerging Technologies Colorado Office of Economic Development	Walter Wong Former Principle Engineer Seagate	Thomas Frey Executive Director DaVinci Institute Executive Producer Colorado Innovation Summit	Michael Weiss Director of Innovation and Marketing Landmark Graphics
Currie Boyle Chief Technology Officer IBM Vancouver Innovation Centre	Gene Keluche Chairman Native Communities Development Corporation	Dr. Terry Higbee Chief Engineer, National Systems Raytheon Company	Rahmat Shoureshi Dean School of Engineering and Computer Science University of Denver	Frederick Vail Intellectual Capital Development Specialist Aramco	Sandy Bracken Executive Director of the Bard Center for Entrepreneurship Development at the University of Colorado at Denver	Stephen Jewett Intellectual Property Attorney Townsend and Townsend and Crew

 

Gary Lundquist Program Chair Colorado Innovation Summit

Innovation begins with ideas and succeeds when those ideas have been put to work in the real world. "Ideas" are often stated in features and functions, yet innovations are so much more than that. Product innovation visions also consider customers to serve, needs to meet, benefits to deliver, uniqueness for preference, perceptions to manage, and mission as commitment to customers.

The Colorado Innovation Summit Stonebrook Manor Thornton, Colorado
Date:	September 23-24, 2004	The Stonebrook Manor Event Center is Denver’s newest and most elegant meeting and banquet facility. Directions: I-25 to 120th Exit. East to Washington. North to 124th. West to Stonebrook Manor. Website: www.stonebrookmanor.com Conference Hotel: Radisson Graystone Castle Hotel 83 East 120th Avenue Thornton, Colorado 80233 Phone: (800) 422-7699 (303) 451-1002 Rate: $79 per night Full buffet breakfast included Free shuttle to & from Stonebrook Manor
Cost:	Only $495 For pricing & discounts click here
Location:	Stonebrook Manor Event Center 650 East 124th Avenue Thornton, CO 80241 (303) 255-0063
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The Colorado Innovation Summit empowers both innovators and corporate managers. Our speakers deliver powerful ideas and tools tested in the real world. Innovation is both process and result. As process, innovation reduces ideas to "products" in use, for the first time anywhere As result, an innovation is a valuable “product” not previously available that meets needs not previously met. The word “product” here is a space-holder. Innovations include businesses, products, services, designs, strategies, processes, events, and more. Innovation happens inside companies, between allies, and as offerings in marketplaces. Innovation begins with invention and succeeds when results are in use.

Who Should Attend Innovators and corporate management Innovators: Creative professionals in disciplines from science through engineering, design, manufacturing, and marketing. Management: Those responsible for the bottom-line. Those who use funding to control the strategic direction of the organization.

12 Reason Why You Should Attend 1. Learn how others have done it. 2. See real world examples - hot topics. 3. Find lessons in the breadth of innovation. 4. Meet leaders of innovation. People who've been there. 5. Expand your network. Build relationships. 6. Learn how to promote your idea to management. 7. Learn how to see your innovation from perspectives of eventual users. 7. Learn to control and guide innovation to achieve corporate objectives. 8. Bring home at least 9 practical, actionable ideas to put to work immediately. 9. Enhance your value to your employer. 10. Expand your perception of what is possible. 11. Grow skills for high innovation performance, in spite of market conditions. 12. Innovate well enough to create jobs and support the economy.

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